CEO pay is determined by a company’s board of directors. Those directors are compensated for the time they spend shaping the company’s strategy. Here’s what the Fortune 100 executives paid each other from 2008 to 2012.
Jan. 1, 2001 to May 18, 2010
Other board members at WellPoint during this time were Donald W. Riegle, Jr., George A. Schaefer, Jr., Jacquelyn Ward and 12 more.
The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, WellPoint SEC filings (2008, 2009, 2010).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe